Kimberly Guilfoyle with her then husband, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom at an election night party November 4, 2003 in San Francisco. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom and his then wife Kimberly Guilfoyle Newsom attend the GQ party in his honor July 27, 2004 at The Federalist Restaurant in Boston, Massachusetts. (Photo by Michael Springer/Getty Images)

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton, left, speaks at a campaign rally for San Francisco mayoral candidate Gavin Newsom, center, with his then wife Kimberly Guilfoyle-Newsom, on December 8, 2003 in San Francisco, California. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

(L-R) Model Carol Alt, designer Zang Toi and Kimberly Guilfoyle pose backstage at the Zang Toi fashion show during New York Fashion Week: The Shows at Gallery 3, Skylight Clarkson Sq on September 13, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Ben Gabbe/Getty Images For NYFW: The Shows)

(L-R) John Corbett, Bo Derek, Kimberly Guilfoyle and Anthony Scaramucci attend the Closing Night Gala at Cinecittà as part of the 2017 Celebrity Fight Night in Italy Benefiting The Andrea Bocelli Foundation and the Muhammad Ali Parkinson Center on September 10, 2017 in Rome, Italy. (Photo by Jonathan Leibson/Getty Images for Celebrity Fight Night)

Kimberly Guilfoyle and Carol Alt attend the Zang Toi collection during, New York Fashion Week: The Shows at Pier 59 on February 13, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Robin Marchant/Getty Images for New York Fashion Week: The Shows)

Mary Shaw (L) and Kimberly Guilfoyle attend Stuart Weitzman And Quest Invite You To Celebrate The New Look At The Exclusive Re-opening Of The Madison Avenue Flagship Store on October 20, 2016 in New York City. (Photo by Monica Schipper/Getty Images for Stuart Weitzman)

(L-R) Kimberly Guilfoyle, Ainsley Earhardt, and Dr. Dendy Engelman attend a celebration of 25 Years of Inside Edition at Park Central New York on October 29, 2013 in New York City. (Photo by Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for Inside Edition)

TV personality Kimberly Guilfoyle, TV personality Natalie Morales and actress Katrina Bowden attend the Milly by Michelle Smith Spring 2011 fashion show during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week at The Stage at Lincoln Center on September 15, 2010 in New York City. (Photo by Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images for IMG)

Kimberly Guilfoyle attends the Cinema Society & Amnesty International screening of "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" at the Tribeca Grand Hotel on July 7, 2010 in New York City. (Photo by Bryan Bedder/Getty Images)

TV personality Kimberly Guilfoyle and Eric Villency attend the launch of Trump International Hotel and Tower Dubai on June 23, 2008 at the Park Avenue Plaza in New York City.(Photo by Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)

Eric Villency and Kimberly Guilfoyle attend Denise Rich's celebration for the arrival of M.Y. Lady Joy on October 9, 2007 in New York City. (Photo by Andrew H. Walker/Getty Images)

Kimberly Guilfoyle and Eric Villency walk the runway at Johnnie Walker's "Dressed To Kilt 2007" fashion show at Capitale on April 2, 2007 in New York City. (Photo by Peter Kramer/Getty Images)

San Francisco mayoral candidate Gavin Newsom (L) and his wife Kimberly Guilfoyle-Newsom greet poll workers after the cast their ballots for the mayoral run-off election December 9, 2003 in San Francisco. Newsom is facing a run-off election against green party candidate Matt Gonzalez. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

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After sharing a sight-seeing selfie from Paris last week, new conservative power couple Kimberly Guilfoyle and Donald Trump Jr. took their hot-and-heavy romance to the south of France, where they were spotted at a pool party in St. Tropez unable “to keep their hands off each other,” according to one of many tabloid reports.

Critics of Trump Jr. see him differently. He’s “entitled, oafish, combative, and desperate for his dad’s approval,” according to Slate writer Katy Waldman. Indeed, the 40-year-old Trump scion is often hit with the nickname “Fredo,” after Vito Corleone’s dim but eager-to-please son.

But Guilfoyle, who said she has known her new boyfriend for 10 years, reveres Trump Jr. as “authentic” and as a natural leader of his father’s base and of a new political “movement.”

“(Trump Jr.) did so many campaign stops for his father,” she said. “He actually spoke to people, and he listened for a change. … He’s at their level and is listening to them, and he’s connecting, and you can see it’s becoming quite a movement across the country.”

Guilfoyle, the host of “The Five,” should know something about being romantically involved with a political up-and-comer.

After all, her first husband was Gavin Newsom, a Democrat who is the frontrunner to become the next governor of California.

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom takes the oath of office from his father Judge William Newsom, with then-wife Kimberly Guilfoyle Newsom at City Hall in San Francisco in January 2004. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

In addition to Newsom sharing Trump Jr.’s penchant for a slicked-back coiffure, Newsom also was once labeled an up-and-coming political star. That’s back when Guilfoyle married him in 2001.

At the time, Guilfoyle was a prosecutor in the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office, and Newsom was a San Francisco supervisor.

In 2003, Newsom was elected San Francisco’s mayor, and Guilfoyle became the city’s first lady.

And, speaking of being first lady, with the way Guilfoyle was talking to Marlow about Trump Jr., it’s easy to wonder if she wouldn’t mind being a first lady again, but as the partner of a different political star.

Guilfoyle, who grew up in San Francisco’s Mission District, said she never shared Newsom’s liberal politics. A registered Republican since her undergraduate days at UC Davis, Guilfoyle joked to Marlow about Thanksgiving family dinners with Newsom’s family: “You want to hear silent screaming!”

One of Newsom’s aunts is married to the brother-in-law of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi. Another aunt is married to liberal actor Ed Asner, who flew in from filming a movie in Rome to attend Newsom and Guilfoyle’s December 2001 wedding at St. Ignatius Church, followed by the lavish reception at the Pacific Heights mansion of Ann and Gordon Getty, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.

It’s not likely Guilfoyle was doing any “silent screaming” when she accompanied Trump Jr. to attend July 4 celebrations at the White House. She received a big, hearty handshake from the president in the Oval Office, as first lady Melania Trump stood by beaming.

Guilfoyle explained that Newsom wasn’t “as far left as he’s gone now.” She laughed, “Sadly! Now that he’s not under my tutelage. … But I can only do so much.”

Shortly after becoming San Francisco’s first lady, the telegenic Guilfoyle received offers to move to New York City to be a legal analyst for broadcast and cable news shows. She was recruited by Roger Ailes to work for Fox News in 2006, a year after she filed for divorce from Newsom, citing the challenges of maintaining a bi-coastal relationship.

Now, Guilfoyle said, she totally disagrees with her ex-husband’s “very liberal policies” on gun control and his “aggressive” stance against her new boyfriend’s father and his administration’s positions on immigration.

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton speaks at a campaign rally for mayoral candidate Gavin Newsom in December 2003, as Kimberly Guilfoyle looks on. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

“So obviously, that wasn’t the best match for me, but I think I got it right this time,” she told Marlow.

There was no immediate response for a request for comment from Newsom about his ex-wife’s remarks.

In Trump Jr., Guilfoyle has evidently found her ideological soulmate. The two were first identified as a couple in May, two months after Trump Jr.’s wife Vanessa, the mother of his five children, filed for divorce after 12 years of marriage.

In talking to Marlow, Guilfoyle also attributed certain traditionally masculine qualities to Trump Jr., saying he’s “an incredible outdoorsman” and “the best I’ve ever shot with.” The two traveled together to Montana in June where they did some fishing and shooting after Trump Jr. spoke at the Republican party’s annual convention.

“He knows everything about weapons, which I admire, because I’m a big Second Amendment supporter,” Guilfoyle said, adding that, as a prosecutor she would go out shooting with SWAT officers and “military guys.”

Trump Jr. “is the base,” Guilfoyle insisted.

Both she and Marlow agreed it’s not fair to call him “entitled” and disagree with people who try to diminish his intelligence or abilities because he’s the son of self-described billionaire Donald Trump.

But in talking to Marlow, Guilfoyle, who presented herself as very pro-law and order, wasn’t asked about any of the scandals or investigations swirling around President Trump and his children. That includes a 2017 ProPublica report that Trump Jr. and his sister Ivanka Trump were almost indicted in New York City for felony fraud over a real estate development or multiple reports that Trump Jr.’s June 2016 Trump Tower meeting with a Kremlin-connected lawyer has been at the center of special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation.

Guilfoyle sees Trump Jr. and the rest of his family as honorable people who care about other others, including those not born to their level of wealth and privilege. Guilfoyle called Trump Jr. and siblings Ivanka and Eric Trump hardworking and “the real deal.”

Trump Jr. admires Guilfoyle right back for her passion for their shared political cause, with him often tweeting or retweeting clips from her Fox News appearances:

Martha Ross is a features writer who covers everything and anything related to popular culture, society, health, women’s issues and families. A native of the East Bay and a graduate of Northwestern University and Mills College, she’s also a former hard-news and investigative reporter, covering crime and local politics.